Throughout Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle explains his opinions on morality and virtue. In the book‚ Nicomachean Ethics‚ he tells us how he believes moral virtue is acquired and what he thinks it is. By doing this he states multiple reasons and explanations as to why he believes the answers to his question. Explaining Aristotle’s thoughts on virtue and what it really means to him will be kind of hard considering how difficult his readings are to read‚ but I attempt to overcome that and
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A big question of western civilization is how one achieves human excellence. The answer lies in the words of two well-known philosophers‚ Socrates and Aristotle. Throughout Plato’s‚ The Apology‚ and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics‚ the two tell all as to what it means to be a genuine‚ good person. In Socrates defense speech he explains to the jury what it means to be a just person‚ shown through his own actions in Greek society. Aristotle writes about what it takes to achieve happiness and how in
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for people because typically without a leader there is confusion and disorganization. Yet‚ Aristotle and Plato believe that we shouldn’t have just any leader‚ but a leader who has reasoning‚ is ethical‚ and is intellectual. For example‚ in Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle states‚ “And perhaps it is necessary also for someone who wishes to make others better through his care‚ whether these be many or few‚ to attempt to become a skilled legislator‚ if it should be through laws that we become good.”
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What is the aim of the human life? Are all the means good for attaining this goal? Aristotle considers these questions in his book of Nicomachean Ethics. He tries not to find out the “why” of the existence of the humanity on the Earth‚ but the ultimate goal a human being is supposed to strive to‚ in order to give sense to his life. He believes‚ this ultimate goal is Eudaimonia. This word can be translated as “happiness”‚ but also fulfillment‚ flourishing or living well. To prove that happiness
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Galen O’Neill Perspectives Professor Donnelly October 7‚ 2014 Understanding The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle’s advice on living an excellent life in college and beyond would focus on the path towards attaining happiness. As the best‚ self-sufficient end and the highest form of good‚ happiness accompanies the acquisition of virtue through action and promotes pure character. Under Aristotle’s terms‚ balance rules the process of obtaining a life of excellence as it curbs extreme behavior and allows
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not teaching them better. While one might have been raised to know the difference between the right and wrong‚ who the person begins to associate himself with could change his/ her moral character. In The Nicomachean Ethics without virtues one can not be happy so a life lived making morally wrong decisions is a life that will not see happiness according to Aristotle. An example that best proves Aristotle’s thinking is one of a man losing his dog at a local park. The man searches all over for his
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Aristotle begins the Nicomachean Ethics by stating that‚ in all our actions and choices‚ we seek some good. The book is not an argument on why we ought to lead good‚ happy lives‚ but rather a description of the good life itself. Aristotle seeks to provide an account of the good itself‚ not to suggest that we should choose to be good. In stating that greater good comes from an end achievable in action that we wish for in itself‚ Aristotle suggests that there is something we can work toward in itself
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Nicomachean Ethics Book III‚ Chapters 69 In Chapter 6 of Book III of Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle teaches of how fear is not something that can be easily described. He talks about what fear means in terms of courage. To be courageous does not necessarily mean to be fearless. Aristotle goes on to explain that having fear‚ in some instances‚ can be “noble”. A very interesting note that he adds is that “For no one is better at enduring frightening things
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Within book 8 and 9 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics‚ he proposes friendship is one of the most choice-worthy goods an individual can have (Aristotle 149‚ 1170a‚ section 7). However‚ in chapter 3 of book 8‚ Aristotle asserts the finest friendships are enduring insofar it is good‚ and the virtues remain the same. However‚ his proposal about the similarities of virtues doesn’t seem entirely correct since people gradually change over time‚ but the relationship can continue to be good and individuals
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The main idea of Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethic is that happiness is the end of all human beings’ action‚ which in today‚ still qualified to be a big idea. The whole society today is getting better comparing with the ancient time from all aspects‚ such as technology‚ culture or economic. But when we tend to the measure the level of happiness‚ it seems that people nowadays are not tending happier than the era of material scarcity; meanwhile‚ there is an increasing number of people try to find out what
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